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Women: There were some bright spots in Count Her In report
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Harsh circumstances
The stark indings, pulled
from surveys and federal and
state reports, relect harsh cir-
cumstances for Oregon’s
women in almost every facet
of life:
• Nearly half say they’ve
experienced a childhood trau-
matic event such as abuse or
neglect, federal surveys have
found.
• Nearly a quarter say they
have been raped.
• Women across the state
earn less than men, according
to Census numbers. For women
of color, the wage gap is much
larger. Latinas, for instance,
earn only 53 cents for every
dollar earned by all men.
• And the foundation dis-
covered nearly half of Oregon’s
counties have zero women
serving on their county com-
missions, the government bod-
ies usually responsible for dol-
ing out social services.
Advocates say the indings
match hard data to an unset-
tling reality they’ve witnessed
for years. Oregon’s women
and girls are struggling —
with domestic abuse and sex-
ual harassment, but also school
attendance and substance
abuse.
“We didn’t have the data to
back up our claims,” said Eliz-
abeth Nye, the executive direc-
tor of Girls Inc. “You feel like
you’re just shouting into the
wind, not being able to substan-
tiate what you’re saying.”
Dawn Jones Redstone/Submitted Photo
Gov. Kate Brown speaks on the Capitol steps Wednesday at the Count Her in report re-
lease. The report ranks Oregon counties on many facets of women’s lives.
to compile a list of female
elected oficials. And they sup-
plemented their numbers with
face-to-face interviews across
the state.
On the road
Glimmer of hope
But Hildick, Nye and oth-
ers say the report offers a glim-
mer of hope. Maybe now, they
hope, policymakers will listen
to pleas for help.
“It’s a way to start conver-
sations, to galvanize and bring
energy to these issues,” Nye
said. “If you don’t ever talk
about it, or if you don’t know it,
it’s just going to continue to be
the same as it always has been. I
really do think people will step
up and say, ‘This can’t continue
this way. We can do better.’
The last comprehensive
report on Oregon women and
girls came out in 1998. That
report, created by the Oregon
Commission on Women and
the Institute for Women’s Pol-
icy, drew mostly from 1990
Census data.
Its indings were hopeful:
Oregon women led the coun-
try in voter turnout, health
insurance coverage and busi-
ness ownership. They reported
roughly average rates of
Graphic by Count Her In
employment and earnings.
That data, nonproit work-
ers said, was no longer a useful
guide for their programs.
“It was a different time,”
Emily Evans, the director of the
Women’s Foundation of Ore-
gon, said about the 1990 Cen-
sus. “The Berlin Wall had just
come down. I was in irst grade.
Nobody had a computer in their
house.”
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New data
For the new foundation’s
report, Evans started by talking
to nonproit leaders such as
Nye about what kind of data
might help their work.
Existing survey data didn’t
always break down responses
by race or income, Nye pointed
out.
In Oregon, for instance, Nye
said people assumed school-
age girls were doing “ine”
because they graduate at higher
rates than boys do. But what
about black and Latina girls?
What about girls living in pov-
erty? No one had data to show
how they, speciically, were
faring.
Evans’ foundation irst paid
economists
ECONorthwest
to pull relevant federal, state
and local numbers. Then the
foundation conducted its own
research. They trawled state,
city and county governments
Earlier this year, foundation
workers and volunteers loaded
up Evans’ grandparents’ 1985
motor home and went on the
road. They visited 14 counties
and talked to 1,000 women and
girls. They held events in Span-
ish, Russian and Somali. They
drove to the Umatilla reserva-
tion to talk with Native Amer-
ican women.
The 28-foot motorhome
doubled as a listening booth.
There, women recorded their
own histories. The data said
wages are low and daycare
costs are high. Evans said
women knew that, intimately,
from trying to juggle their
career aspirations with their
role as caretakers.
“Oregon and women know
what’s wrong,” Evans said.
“There was no disagreement
with what the data said. These
challenges are felt every day.”
The data, for instance,
revealed high rates of sexual
violence across the state. On the
road, women told foundation
staff and volunteers that their
communities are ill-equipped
to support survivors. Hospi-
tals lack trained sexual assault
nurse examiners, as well as the
money to process physical evi-
dence like rape kits.
In Newport, one woman
described waiting days with-
out a shower after her assault
because no one at her local
hospital was trained to exam-
ine her. She eventually drove to
Corvallis to receive help.
Data collected from a child
care advocacy group showed
the cost of child care in Oregon
is the second most expensive
state in the country for infant
care — a statewide average
of $11,322 a year — and the
fourth most expensive for tod-
dler care, with a statewide aver-
age of $8,797. A single parent
making the median income of
$22,000 would have to spend
half her salary to put an infant
in daycare.
“There is a reckoning com-
ing,” Evans said. “We have
this perception of ourselves as
a progressive state and a great
place to live. When we dive
into the data, we’re inding
it’s incredibly challenging for
women and girls in Oregon,
more challenging than it is in
many, if not most, other states.
But there is something hopeful
about inally knowing the full
measure of the problem. Then
we can move past the specula-
tion of whether it is a problem
and move toward creating solu-
tions together.”
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Lawmakers
A few policymakers have
indicated they plan to join that
quest.
Rep.
Knute
Buehler,
R-Bend, irst heard about the
report when his wife attended
a listening session in Bend.
He contacted the foundation
and asked for a copy of their
indings.
“I’m a physician by train-
ing, so I’m a data-driven guy,”
Buehler said. “I try to stay away
from the tired partisan argu-
ments. I just try to look at the
data and not ask if it’s a Repub-
lican or Democratic idea, but
what’s the best idea to solve the
problem?”
Buehler called the report
“really top-notch work” and
said it will help guide him in
the coming months. Buehler,
who pushed legislation 2015
that made it easier for women
to obtain birth control prescrip-
tions, plans to use the data next
year as he works on bills aimed
at improving mental health and
suicide prevention.
The report, citing state and
federal data, said 9 percent of
Oregon women report having
seven or more drinks a day —
the highest rate in the nation
and nearly double the national
average of 5 percent. On their
listening tour, the researchers
found 70 percent of women
told them they “faced a men-
tal health issue that adversely
affected” their jobs, home life
or health.
“Good policy will be pro-
duced from such great founda-
tional efforts,” he said.
The group found some
bright spots.
Oregon women vote at
higher rates than Oregon
men, and at higher rates than
women in most other states.
Oregon women serve in state-
wide elected ofice at some of
the highest rates in the country.
And they give charitably and
volunteer their time at higher
rates than Oregon men and than
women in most other states.
“Women and girls in Ore-
gon are giving a lot but get-
ting less than women and girls
in other states,” Evans said.
“Imagine how much they could
give if they weren’t facing all
these daily challenges.”
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